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by j7ake 4y ago
Also there is precedent for Nobel-level papers coming in within months of each other and still be considered for Nobel prize. See circadian rhythms with Michael Young and Michael Rosbash. They both got Nobel prizes, but one of the papers ar
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by j7ake 4y ago
Man who discovered gfp (green fluorescent protein) was forgotten. Robert Tsien and Osamu Shimomura, and Chalfie got the nobel prize for it, not Douglas Prasher. The most recent example would be Virginius Siksnys. He did not get the Nobel pr
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by j7ake 4y ago
Some productive academics insert themselves into a lab where they want to learn something new. After sabbatical they try to combine their new ideas into their existing research programme. The really top academics don’t take sabbaticals beca
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by j7ake 4y ago
Would Einstein, Bardeen, and Fermi have been bored by immortality? I have a feeling not. There are endless curiosities in the universe. One is less easily bored if one goes deep. Doing superficial things like international travel does get b
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by j7ake 4y ago
Agreed. Before inventions of dishwashers, laundry machines, and roombas, there was literally enough work to have one person in household home at all times (home maker). Now it is common to live life where both parents work and no homemaker.
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by j7ake 4y ago
Maybe go beyond programming and think of methods in data analysis, machine learning, and decision making.
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by j7ake 4y ago
He is successful because he can attract guests worth listening to. How he attracts those guests? He has a successful podcast with many listeners. It’s a positive feedback loop.
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by j7ake 4y ago
Pass syncs on my iPhone using the pass iOS app.
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by j7ake 4y ago
What if you want to take notes that are not just text ? Diagrams, photos, images, equations. How do you vim your way out of that? If they are going to use Lindy arguments on note taking, then it should be pen and paper. If you still want to
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by j7ake 4y ago
Thanks for your stories. If you were to start a company from scratch today, how would you organise and divide work from home versus office ?
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by j7ake 4y ago
People working from home still want their bagels and lunches.
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by j7ake 4y ago
The 16 percent interest rate is not necessarily bad. Back then you could put money in savings account and get 15 percent interest from the bank. Also the high interest rate means lower house prices, so you could buy a house in cash from sav
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by j7ake 4y ago
Yeah that’s a crazy one. I think the appropriate barbell strategy is to meditate 10 minutes a day and go on a 5 day meditative practice. But most of the benefit probably comes from the 10 minutes per day. Something about 0 minutes leads to
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by j7ake 4y ago
I find it useful because there’s social pressure to present yourself as a knowledgeable person. No one wants to fumble in public like an idiot and waste people’s time, so you prepare for the material as well as possible questions.
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by j7ake 4y ago
Investing in what ? If you bet on tech in the last 6 months you lost 50 percent of your investment. You would have to wait for stocks to double to break even, which can be a long time.
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by j7ake 4y ago
It seemed to work well, but then my MacBook crashed for some reason.
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by j7ake 4y ago
It is literally how mattress and sofa companies sell their products at such inflated prices.
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by j7ake 4y ago
The fallacy in the article is trying to compare price of phone versus price of food. The two are so different that it makes no sense to put them in the same comparison. One should compare phones within the category of other phones. Compare
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by j7ake 4y ago
I found writing out how my ideal day will go (by the hour) when I wake up helps me focus and avoid distractions. Just one column of hours from 6h00 to 20h00 for example and then write an activity associated with that time in second column (
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by j7ake 4y ago
Selfish behaviour only works because the rest of society on aggregate are still contributing to the maintenance, development, and research of a multigenerational civilisation.
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by j7ake 4y ago
What fraction of Americans nearing retirement age can actually comfortably retire ?
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by j7ake 4y ago
Does this person have a family and kids? I don’t see how anyone can do this unless they contribute nothing to their families or extended families. Sounds to me like a very selfish view of life. Most people in the world have either ailing pa
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by j7ake 4y ago
This article was nice. I wonder if it can be generalized to careers in general ? Long, satisfying careers often involve proactive, design-oriented approach rather than purely reactive. The only way to make grunge work an entire career would
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by j7ake 4y ago
As a young person in some countries in Europe, some have no choice but to go through a period of unpaid internships before they get a full time job. It’s a consequence of high labour costs, high minimum wage, and government regulations on e
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by j7ake 4y ago
It’s hypocritical of European cultures to tout their great social benefits and stable employment while having an entire underclass of unpaid and abused employees that don’t get fair treatment from everybody else in society.
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by j7ake 4y ago
I feel like these abuses in the workplace happen especially in industries where workers overestimate the romance of the job: fashion models, talk TV shows, science at famous places. The huge demand for even unpaid internships at these place
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by j7ake 4y ago
Soma: a little creepy because you explore dark underwater vessels. But there are no violence, but you may have to run away from some enemies that chase you. Story is amazing. Themes include the identity of “self”, sacrifice, and future of h
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by j7ake 4y ago
Europe splits into the “olive oil / Mediterranean” countries and “butter” countries. Usually the Mediterranean countries have better grocery stores compared to the butter countries.
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by j7ake 4y ago
Comparing grocery stores in USA and Europe (let’s say Italy), one big difference is that USA has a much larger variability in quality of products. In usa, You can buy the cheapest meats to the most expensive. While in italy the lower bound
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by j7ake 4y ago
Where does one buy these glucose monitors ? Do you need to get it prescribed by doctors ? Or can healthy people get one too ?

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